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Dust jacket notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell: AFS 4194 A2 is a recording of a fragment (2 verses) of the "The Lowlands low;" AFS 4194 A3 repeats this, with a different refrain as sung by Warde Ford's Uncle Rob Walker.

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Warde Ford, unaccompanied vocals.

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Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Central Valley, California on December 25, 1938.

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Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Warde Ford performing Anglo-American songs on December 25, 26, and 27, 1938, and Septebmer 4, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Boomtown [Central Valley], Shasta County, California.

Dust jacket notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell: AFS 4194 A2 is a recording of a fragment (2 verses) of the "The Lowlands low;" AFS 4194 A3 repeats this, with a different refrain as sung by Warde Ford's Uncle Rob Walker. Warde Ford, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Central Valley, California on December 25, 1938. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Warde Ford performing Anglo-American songs on December 25, 26, and 27, 1938, and Septebmer 4, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Boomtown [Central Valley], Shasta County, California.

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